The EIU view

The April 18th presidential vote has been delayed, most likely until early 2020, with the long-running, ailing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, announcing that he will not seek re-election. It is unclear who will succeed him, but the regime will seek to engineer a transition to a hand-picked successor. The economy will remain dependent on energy despite diversification policies. In spite of rising gas production, the pace of GDP growth will be modest, at around 3% in 2019.

Monetisation of fiscal deficit continues
The Economist Intelligence Unit believes that the government may eventually have to resort to incurring additional external debt, despite its current reservations about doing so.